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Automating whenever possible standardizes processes and frees developers' time for other projects. In separate articles, authors Ricardo Balduino and Richa Awasthy share with you how to automate for success. In our third article Pradeep Shashidhar teaches you how to deploy Rational Change on a... [More]

This week, our feature article series about Rational Method Composer and Jazz continued with Ricardo Balduino, Senior Software Engineer, explaining how to automate your already established processes in Rational Team Concert. We called on him to explain what makes him so passionate about creating... [More]

Accelerate delivery and reduce costs with the IBM Integrated Solution for System z Development – One Customer’s Journey Modern, streamlined development environments are nothing new in distributed shops. But introducing efficiency, cost reduction, and modern methodologies for mainframe development... [More]

The developerWorks Rational team is happy to announce the launch of our site redesign. With this fresh, new look, we set out to organize technical articles, downloads, and events in ways that relate to your role and business needs. This design also improves the mobile device experience for those of... [More]

Well, it's been a crazy few weeks here as we've been coding our fingers to the bone working to bring you the new developerWorks Rational home page that launched this week. We hope you like it and would love to hear what you think. Let us know in the comments! (have you found the team's mascot, a... [More]

In addition to the comprehensive documentation provided with IBM® Rational® Developer for System z®, we also offer a vast array of supplemental sources of education, insight, and expertise through the Rational Developer for System z Tech Portal. The Tech Portal is a set of folders in the Eclipse... [More]

Is it a constant struggle to keep strategic goals, objectives, projects connected and aligned? Traditional software development methods don’t help. Programmers can work separately for days or even weeks on the same code without realizing how many conflicts (and perhaps bugs) they are generating.... [More]

August 21 Record Android client app test scripts in Rational Performance Tester By Valerio Pengue, Software Performance Engineer, IBM Learn how to use the Rational Performance Tester and the Android emulator to set up a simple framework to record an HTTP test for an Android application in IBM... [More]

We're calling on Bob Aiello, consultant, editor-in-chief of the CM Crossroads website for developers and co-author of Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World . This week, he is the author of our developerWorks feature article The true value of agile... [More]

Create and use Web services and RESTful services in CICS, Part 2: CICS Atom support as RESTful service This is a second installment in a series of posts that introduces Web services and RESTful services development in IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS). In Part 1 , we went through an... [More]

Everyone in the business world is aware of the importance of ensuring that money spent is spent wisely. This week we're sharing how your business can use Rational products to evaluate your ROI. Q3 is winding down. It's time to start preparing for next year's investments by thinking about what's next... [More]

IT professionals are continually asked to deliver more function with fewer resources in a shorter time. Transformation can be difficult in IBM® System z® shops, where major requirements are a challenge to implement quickly, testing cycles tend to be long and fixed, and the risk of change is high.... [More]

Here in the US our kids head back to school in September so, as a parent, my mind is thinking about education a bit more these days. Here at developerWorks Rational we love bringing you new information designed to inform and educate you. This week we have 3 new articles related to improving the... [More]

I'm really excited to be starting 2 new classes on Coursera.org this week. Coursera offers free classes from international universities. I'm taking one class from Stanford University, the other from the University of Toronto and am really looking forward to learning some new skills. We know you also... [More]

We're calling on Fabio Castiglioni, an Executive IT Architect with IBM Sales and Distribution and an instructor of Component Modeling classes for IBM architects. His latest article, Enterprise architecture in the age of cloud services , was born from one of his latest client situations. What... [More]

The bottom line. It seems that is what everyone is interested in. It makes sense though… would you want to spend 85% of your IT budget, or 50%? One company was able to cut their IT maintenance budget to 50%, allowing them to shift the extra funds to innovation. They also reduced the number of... [More]

Interested in more IBM Rational news? Follow us on Twitter at @ibmrational , like us on Facebook , or sign up to receive our weekly newsletter . How Linked Lifecycle Data can transform your systems engineering environment By Benjamin N. Williams Organizations are building increasingly... [More]

This week we had a smaller publish but Rosendo's article is quickly racking up the views and is sporting a 5-star rating. We hope you find it to be of value, too. Interested in more IBM Rational news? Follow us on Twitter at @ibmrational , like us on Facebook , or sign up to receive our weekly... [More]

In my previous blog entry on EGL, I described how the EGL language enables the development of modern, multi-platform applications in a common language, and abstracts the technical details of the underlying frameworks and runtime platforms. I will go into more detail on the different types of... [More]